Rubber shoe



(No Model.)

S. W. POWELL & J. W. MARSHALL."

RUBBER SHOE.

No.477,958. PatentedJuneZ8, 189Z,

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' UNITED, STATES PATENT OrFIcE.

SAMUEL WV. POlVELL AND JOHN W. MARSHALL, OF RICHMOND, MISSOURI.

RUBBER SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 477,958, dated June 28,1892. v Application filed March 1, 1892. Serial No. 423392. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL W. POWELL and JOHN W. MARSHALL, of Richmond,in the county of Ray and State of Missouri, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Overshoes with Applied Fastenings, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to means used for retaining a rubber or otherovershoe in place upon the dress or under shoe and of preventing it fromaccidentally slipping off thelatter, the same including an elastic strapor band or bar fastened at its one end to the heel portion of theovershoe and adapted to hook over or engage with a button or projectionon the dress oi under shoe.

The invention comprises a pocketed construction of the heel portion ofthe overshoe for the elastic strap, bar, or band in its reflex action tobe received within when disengaged from the fastening projection on thedress shoe or boot, whereby special advantages are obtained,substantially as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a dress-shoe having arubber overshoe fitted over it with our invention applied, and Fig. 2 isa longitudinal sectional elevation of the heel portion of the overshoewith the elastic strap or band in its reflexed or retraeted positionwithin a pocket in the heel end of the overshoe.

A indicates a dress-shoe, and B a rubber overshoe fitted thereon.

O is the elastic strap or band applied to the heel portion of the rubbershoe and adapted to engage by suitable means-sueh, for ,instance, as aring I) on the upperend of said strap or band-with a suitable projectionor fastening-such, for instance, as a hook e on the back of thedress-shoeto hold the overshoe upon the latter and prevent it from beingaccidentally drawn or slipped off the dress-shoe. The elastic strap orband C is a separate attachment from the overshoe, but is built in withit, the same being let into a pocket d, formed within and down the heelend of the overshoe, and cemented or otherwise suitably secured at itslower end to the bottom part'of said pocket, so that when said strap orband is not being used or is disengaged from the fastening or projectionon the dress-shoe it by its reflex action or retracting force isout ofthe way and out of sight and is protected from injury within the pocket(1, as shown in Fig.2; but after the overshoe has been fitted on or overthe dress-shoe then the upper'end portion of said strap or band isdrawn-as, for instance, by the projecting ring b-out of thepocket, forwhichthe elasticity of the strap or band readily provides, and isengaged with the projection upon the dressshoe to hold the rubber shoeon the latter, as shown in Fig. 1. The arrangement of said strap or bandwithin the pocket (1 does away with all inconvenience arising from thestrap being in the way both when fitting the overshoe over thedress-shoeand at all other times, and leaves the overshoe'intact orself-acting. The heel of the overshoe is also materially stiffened bythis construction.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent-- As an improved article of manufacture, arubber shoe formed at its heel with a pocket (I, open at its upper end,an elastic strip concealed within the pocket and having its lower endfixedly secured at the base of the pocket, and a fastening device on theupper end of the elastic strip, projecting above the upper edge of therubber to engage a projection on a shoe, substantially as set forth.

SAMUEL W.'POWELL.

- JOHN W. MARSHALL.

"Witnesses:

WILLIAM E. MARSHALL, CHARLES A. RICE.

